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Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:23:18 +0000hourly1By: aggienchttp://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-do-i-convert-pst-file-to-something-i-can-search-by-text-all-contents/#comment-104710
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:32:37 +0000#comment-104710I understand that, but there may be others that aren’t. Either way, I need to get non-text attachments like excel and pdf files set up so that they can be searched if they are not images.

Getting as many attachments to the emails to be searchable is very important. There’s projects like Tika that can search a PDF file, but it has to be in a the correct format. Emailchemy just shoves the contents of the PDF into the same file as the email messages and that doesn’t help.

Be aware that a .PDF doesn’t have to contain any searchable text at all, other than the formatting instructions of course. Many .PDFs are created explicitly to block searching. They might only contain images of pages of text rather than the text on the pages.

Tom

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Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:14:34 +0000#comment-104672@ Gabe9527, I don’t have the content on an exchange server. The PST files are on my desktop and these emails are not apart of my account but someone that left the company.

I don’t think those commands will be of use to me.

@Arch4ngel, I tried importing the files into Outlook 2007 and searched for content in the attachments and apparently, I couldn’t get the search to look at the content of the attachments. So I don’t know if Outlook 007 has that capability to see what is in an attachment file.

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Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:57:55 +0000#comment-104670I would import it back into Outlook 2007 (safest bet) and then, use search and find the required emails with/without attachment(s), then drag and drop into a folder on your desktop.

This way, it is out of your outlook. I would think this is the most solid way of ensuring what you searching is correct and what you extracting is still the same format as before.